- Social conditions, Politics and government, Inner cities, Real estate development
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Mike Davis, Mike Davis
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 462
- Publisher
- Verso Books, Vintage Books, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780860913030
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“Pendant l'été 1989, un magazine de mode bien connu et constamment à l'affût des dernières tendances annonçait que 1'« intellectualisme » était devenu la dernière folie du moment à Los Angeles.”
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar)">Mike Davis</a> on Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>).
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